When Richard Alexander Parsley was born in 1828, in Russell, Virginia, United States, his father, Alexander Parsley, was 31 and his mother, Margaret Anderson, was 31. He married Dorcas Jane Bone on 31 May 1849, in Laurel, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Raccoon, Laurel, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died in 1893, in Laurel, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 65.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: variant of Pashley .
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